Skuzzy? or ??? Trim

[wrag]

Can anyone explain the left rudder thing at high speeds on most planes????

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Hmmm...  I fly with CT OFF. Don't like it.

I don't like the way some planes seem to flop around allot more when I use combat trim vs with no combat trim.  Sometimes they even seem to resist any input?

Guess I take em closer to the edge of their flight envelope, or something.

So I fly with it off.  At high speed on most planes I find I have to input abit of left rudder to maintain the ball at center????

The 109g10 takes a huge amount of this.

Oddly in a right hand turn at times I need left rudder to center the ball in the 109g10.

[Morpheus]

Wouldnt your nose want to drop off in a right turn?

So wouldnt you have to add left rudder to keep the ball centered?

I dont get the whole "watch the ball thing" though anyways.

In game I never keep an eye on that thing. Although the mossi did have a bugged ball that flew back and forth across the cockpit like it was on a string attached to an imaginary rear view mirror.

[Curval]

Originally posted by wrag
Can anyone explain the left rudder thing at high speeds on most planes????

Torque?

[DieAz]

this ain't a ball game, forget the ball.
in fact, forget everything on ya dash.
look out and about ya plane, to get the feel of it.
become one with yer plane.  

[wrag]

Hmmmm.......

OK to me if I center the ball I get the max preformance out of the plane at high speed.  

If the ball is off center the plane SHOULD be bleeding speed due to drag?  

If the ball is centered then drag SHOULD be at it's least?

Could lose 5 to 10 mph due to side slip attitude drag?

I've caught many runners by keeping the ball centered when in a g10 at high speed.  Or it sure seemed to help.

Even passed other g10 that started out with about the same speed.

Thinkin combat trim may tend to work like auto level.  At high speed auto level will screw your speed real quick!

Hmmm think auto anything at high speed is most unwise.  Especially if your dealing with a fast badguy.

Couple of times made la7 work pretty dang hard to catch me if I just took the hub cannon and kept the ball centered at high speed.

Oh Well just my opinion anyways LOL

[StarOfAfrica2]

Even if you dont like CT, its useful.  It puts your plane in trim for whatever speed you are travelling, to put it at its most basic.  Turn it on, watch your trim indicators move around, when they stabilize turn it back off.  You are now pretty darn close to a neutral trim and can hold speed better.  Until you slow back down, then you need to trim the plane for slower speeds.  

Combat Trim is not something I leave on all the time, it is useful on a situational basis however.  Its a tool like any other.  Learn what it does, use what you want to of it.  Thats what tools are for.